appendix-ai-cli

appendix-ai-cli is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hajekim/agentic-design-patterns-skills. It costs 428 tokens per session (3,559 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for using AI coding assistants from a command-line interface, the text-based terminal developers use to run commands and edit projects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning large refactors, generating tests or technical documentation, implementing described features, or comparing tools such as Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Aider, and GitHub Copilot CLI.
Why use it?
It helps developers choose a terminal-based assistant for tasks that span code files, tests, documentation, or version-control workflows.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hajekim/agentic-design-patterns-skills/appendix-ai-cli
Any agent
npx skills add hajekim/agentic-design-patterns-skills --skill appendix-ai-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hajekim/agentic-design-patterns-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 428 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,559 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00428 $0.03559
Opus 5 $0.00214 $0.01780
Sonnet 5 $0.00086 $0.00712
Haiku 4.5 $0.00043 $0.00356

Measured 5d ago against content hash 4272f39223ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

appendix-ai-cli scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/appendix-ai-cli/SKILL.md · 339 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 339 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Appendix E - AI Agents on the CLI

Overview

AI CLI Agents represent a new class of tools that transform the developer's terminal from a command executor into an intelligent, collaborative workspace. These agents understand natural language, maintain context about entire codebases, and perform complex multi-step development tasks autonomously — from architectural refactoring to test generation to documentation.

The command-line interface is an ideal environment for AI agents: text-based, sandboxed, and structured. Unlike GUI agents that must interpret visual layouts, CLI agents work directly with code, files, and system commands, enabling precise and auditable automation.

Core Principle: Choose the CLI agent based on your workflow: Claude Code for architectural work, Gemini CLI for multimodal and cloud tasks, Aider for git-centric TDD, GitHub Copilot CLI for GitHub-integrated workflows.

When This Skill Applies

Activate this pattern when:

  • Performing large-scale refactoring across many files
  • Generating comprehensive test suites for existing code
  • Generating or updating technical documentation
  • Implementing features described in natural language
  • Integrating with CI/CD pipelines for automated code review
  • Comparing AI CLI tools for a team's development workflow
  • Setting up CLAUDE.md / GEMINI.md project memory files

CLI Agent Comparison

Agent Provider Core Strength Best For
Claude Code Anthropic Deep codebase understanding, architectural reasoning Large-scale refactoring, multi-file changes, architectural tasks
Gemini CLI Google Open-source, multimodal, large context window, Google Cloud integration Multimodal tasks, Google Cloud workflows, broad accessibility
Aider Open Source Git-centric, auto-commit, TDD workflow, model-agnostic Test-driven development, precise bug fixes, auditable changes
GitHub Copilot CLI GitHub/Microsoft Deep GitHub ecosystem integration, issue→PR workflow GitHub-integrated teams, automated issue resolution

Read the full file on GitHub · 339 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 339 lines · 428 tokens per session scan A 4272f39223ea

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appendix-ai-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository hajekim/agentic-design-patterns-skills (4 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 428 tokens to every session and 3,559 once invoked, about $0.0021 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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